CURRICULUM VITAE

Sriram Ramaswamyhttp://www.physics.iisc.ac.in/~sriram/Homi Bhabha Chair Professor and J C Bose National FellowCentre for Condensed Matter TheoryDepartment of Physics, Indian Institute of ScienceBangalore 560 012 IndiaPhone: +91 (80) 2360 2698 or 2293 3283Fax: +91 (80) 2360 2602 or 0228E-mail: sriram@iisc.ac.in

Citizen of IndiaMarried, two childrenBorn 10 November 1957

Education:PhD (Physics) Univ. of Chicago 1983BS (Physics, High Honours) Univ. of Maryland College Park 1977All-India Higher Secondary: The Modern School, New Delhi, 1973

Positions held:

1. 26 May 2002-present: Professor, Department of Physics, Indian Institute ofScience, Bangalore

2. 28 July 2012 - 26 Oct 2016: Senior Professor and Centre Director, TIFRCentre for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Hyderabad (and Adjunct Professor,Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, 1 Feb 2017 - 31 Jan 2020)

3. 26 May 1996 - 25 May 2002: Associate Professor, Department of Physics,Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

4. March 1990 - May 1996: Assistant Professor, Centre for Theoretical Studies(upto 30 June 1995) and Dept. of Physics, Indian Institute of Science,Bangalore.

5. May 1986 - March 1990: UGC Research Scientist A, Physics Department,Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

6. University of Pennsylvania: Postdoctoral Research Investigator Dept. ofPhysics, Sep. 1983 -May 1986.

Research Interests:

Nonequilibrium, soft-matter and biological physics

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PUBLICATIONS:

Submitted or preprints:

• Inversion of vortex flow around active microalgae under strong confine-ment, Debasmita Mondal, Ameya G. Prabhune, Sriram Ramaswamy, PrernaSharma, https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02040

• Active nonreciprocal attraction between motile particles in an elastic medium,Rahul Kumar Gupta, Raushan Kant, Harsh Soni, A.K. Sood, Sriram Ra-maswamy https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.04860

• Fluid flocks with inertia, R Chatterjee, N Rana, R A Simha, P Perlekar, SRamaswamy, https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.03492

Published or accepted; refereed journals:

1. Waves, Algebraic Growth and Clumping in Sedimenting Disk Arrays, R Chajwa,N Menon, S Ramaswamy, R Govindarajan, Phys Rev X (accepted) https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.04168

2. Phases and excitations of active rod-bead mixtures: simulations and experiments,H. Soni, N. Kumar, J. Nambisan, R. K. Gupta, A. K. Sood and S. Ramaswamy,Soft Matter 16, 7210 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1039/C9SM02552A

3. Nonmutual torques and the unimportance of motility for long-range order in two-dimensional flocks, L P Dadhichi, J Kethapelli, R Chajwa, S Ramaswamy, AMaitra (https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.06581), Phys Rev E 101, 052601 (2020)

4. Omnidirectional transport and navigation of Janus particles through a nematicliquid crystal film, D K Sahu, S Ramaswamy, S Dhara, Phys. Rev. Research 2,032009 (2020) https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.11168

5. Swimmer suspensions on substrates: anomalous stability and long-range order, AMaitra, P Srivastava, M C Marchetti, S Ramaswamy, M Lenz, https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.01069, Phys Rev Lett 124, 028002 (2020) https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.028002

6. Oriented Active Solids, A Maitra, S Ramaswamy, https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.01374, Phys Rev Lett 123, 238001 (2019); https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.238001

7. Pairing, waltzing and scattering of chemotactic active colloids, S Saha, S Ra-maswamy, R Golestanian, New J. Phys. 21 (2019) 063006 https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ab20fd, https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02485.

8. Kepler orbits of settling discs, R Chajwa, N Menon, S Ramaswamy, Phys. Rev.Lett. 122 (2019) 224501; https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.224501, https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.10269

9. Stress Fluctuations in Transient Active Networks, D Goldstein, S Ramaswamy, BChakraborty, Soft Matter 15 (2019) 3520-3526; https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.08119, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C9SM00205G

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10. Trapping and sorting active rods: motility-induced condensation and smectic de-fects, Phys Rev E 99 (2019) 032605, N Kumar, R K Gupta, H Soni, S Ramaswamy,A.K. Sood, https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.02278

11. Inferring critical points of ecosystem transitions from spatial data, S Majumder,K Tamma, S Ramaswamy, V Guttal, Ecology 100, e02722 (2019);https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/09/12/187799

12. Origins and diagnostics of the nonequilibrium character of active systems, L PDadhichi, A Maitra, S Ramaswamy, J Stat Mech (2018) 123201; https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.08997

13. Defect unbinding in active nematics, S Shankar, M C Marchetti, S Ramaswamyand M J Bowick, https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.06350, Phys Rev Lett 121,108002 (2018).

14. Stability from activity, A Maitra, P Srivastava, M C Marchetti, J Lintuvuori,S Ramaswamy, and M Lenz, PNAS 115 69346939 (2018); https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.02407

15. The low noise phase of a 2d active nematic, S Shankar, S Ramaswamy, M CMarchetti http://arxiv.org/abs/1710.05400; Phys Rev E 97 (2018) 012707;Editor’s Choice https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.97.012707

16. Active Matter, S Ramaswamy, J. Stat. Mech. (2017) 054002

17. Hydrodynamic instabilities in active cholesteric liquid crystals C A Whitfield, TC Adhyapak, A Tiribocchi, G P Alexander, D Marenduzzo, and S Ramaswamy,arXiv:1701.05022, Eur Phys Jour E 40 (2017) 50

18. The glass susceptibility: growth kinetics and saturation under shear, S K Nandi,S Ramaswamy, Phys. Rev. E 94, 012607 (2016); arXiv:1309.2389

19. Silent Flocks, Andrea Cavagna, Irene Giardina, Tomas S. Grigera, Asja Jelic,Dov Levine, Sriram Ramaswamy, Massimiliano Viale, Phys Rev Lett 114, 218101(2015); arXiv:1410.2868; Editor’s Choice and highlighted with a Synopsis inPhysics http://physics.aps.org/synopsis-for/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.218101

20. Anisotropic Isometric Fluctuation Relations in experiment and theory on a self-propelled rod, Nitin Kumar, Harsh Soni, Sriram Ramaswamy, and A.K. Sood,Phys. Rev. E 91, 030102 (R) (2015); arXiv:1502.04466

21. Active Viscoelastic Matter: from Bacterial Drag Reduction to Turbulent Solids,E. J. Hemingway, A. Maitra, S. Banerjee, M. C. Marchetti, S. Ramaswamy, S. M.Fielding, M. E. Cates, Phys Rev Lett 114, 098302 (2015); arXiv:1410.6077

22. Flocking at a distance in active granular matter, Nitin Kumar, Harsh Soni, SriramRamaswamy and A.K. Sood, Nature Communications 5: 4688 doi:10.1038/ncomms5688(2014); arXiv:1402.4262v2;highlighted in http://tinyurl.com/m3quo2f, http://tinyurl.com/l46stfj,http://tinyurl.com/l6zmzt8 http://tinyurl.com/mjcl862

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23. Universal power law in crossover from integrability to quantum chaos, R Modak,S Mukerjee, S Ramaswamy, Phys. Rev. B 90 (2014) 075152; arXiv:1309.1865.

24. Aspects of the density field in an active nematic, S Mishra, S Puri and S Ra-maswamy, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 372: 20130364 (2014);http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2013.0364

25. Activating membranes, A Maitra, P Srivastava, M Rao and S Ramaswamy, PhysRev Lett 112 (2014) 258101; arXiv:1311.5055.

26. Clusters, asters and collective oscillations in chemotactic colloids, S Saha, RGolestanian, S Ramaswamy, Phys Rev E 89 (2014) 062316; arXiv:1309.4947.

27. Nonequilibrium noise in electrophoresis: the microion wind, Suropriya Saha, SRamaswamy, Phys Rev E 89 (2014) 032307

28. Actomyosin contractility rotates the cell nucleus, A Kumar, A Maitra, M Sumit,S Ramaswamy, G V Shivashankar, Sci. Rep. 4, 3781; DOI:10.1038/srep03781(2014); arXiv:1302.6052

29. Phase-Synchronized State of Oriented Active Fluids, S. Furthauer and S. Ra-maswamy, arXiv:1307.5705, Phys Rev Lett 111 (2013) 238102

30. Mesoscopic theory for fluctuating active nematics, E Bertin, H Chate, F Ginelli, SMishra, A Peshkov, S Ramaswamy, New J. Phys. 15 (2013) 085032; arXiv:1305.0772

31. The actin cortex as an active wetting layer, J.-F. Joanny, K. Kruse, J. Prost, S.Ramaswamy, arXiv:1302.5025, Eur. Phys. J. E 36 (2013) 52

32. Yielding and large deviations in micellar gels: a model, S K Nandi, B Chakraborty,A K Sood and S Ramaswamy, J. Stat. Mech. (2013) P02027; arXiv:1210.1987

33. Live Soap: Order, Fluctuations and Instabilities in Active Smectics, T.C. Adhya-pak, S. Ramaswamy, and John Toner, http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.2708, Phys.Rev. Lett. 110 (2013) 118102

34. Hydrodynamics of soft active matter, M. C. Marchetti, J.-F. Joanny, S. Ra-maswamy, T. B. Liverpool, J. Prost, M. Rao, R.A. Simha, Rev. Mod. Phys.85 (2013) 1143-1189, http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.2929

35. How do glassy domains grow? S.K. Nandi, S. Ramaswamy http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.1152,Phys Rev Lett, 109 (2012) 115702

36. A drop of active matter, J.-F. Joanny and S. Ramaswamy, J. Fluid Mech., 705(2012) 46-57; arXiv:1201.2794.

37. Oscillatory settling in wormlike-micelle solutions: bursts and a long time scale,Nitin Kumar, Sayantan Majumdar, Aditya Sood, Rama Govindarajan, SriramRamaswamy and A.K. Sood, Soft Matter 8 (2012) 4310;Hot Paper: http://tinyurl.com/ks2c4g8

38. The mode-coupling glass transition in a fluid confined by a periodic potential:general theory and results in one dimension, S.K. Nandi, S.M. Bhattacharyya, S.Ramaswamy, Phys. Rev. E 84 (2011) 061501.

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39. Symmetry Properties of the Large-Deviation Function of the Velocity of a Self-Propelled Polar Particle, Nitin Kumar, Sriram Ramaswamy, and A. K. Sood,Phys. Rev. Lett. 106 (2011) 118001 (Editor’s Suggestion)

40. The Mechanics and Statistics of Active Matter, S Ramaswamy, Annu. Rev. Con-dens. Matt. Phys. 1 (2010) 323-345 (Inaugural Issue)

41. A dynamic renormalization group study of active nematics, S Mishra, R A Simhaand S Ramaswamy, J. Stat. Mech. (2010) P02003

42. Dynamics of a stiff biopolymer in an actively contractile background: buckling,stiffening and negative dissipation, N Kikuchi, A Ehrlicher, D Koch, J A Kaes, SRamaswamy, M Rao, PNAS 106 (2009) 19776-19779

43. Universality Class of the Reversible-Irreversible Transition in Sheared Suspen-sions, G I Menon, S Ramaswamy, Phys Rev E 79 (2009) 061108 (arxiv.org/0801.3881)

44. Instabilities and waves in thin films of living fluids, Sumithra Sankararaman andSriram Ramaswamy, Phys Rev Lett 102 (2009) 118107 (arxiv.org/0809.4918)

45. Exact solution of a Brownian inchworm model for self-propulsion, A. Baule, K.Vijay Kumar and S. Ramaswamy, J. Stat. Mech. (2008) P11008

46. Active elastic dimers: self-propulsion and current reversal on a featureless track,K. Vijay Kumar, S. Ramaswamy and M. Rao, Phys Rev E 77, 020102 R (2008)

47. Active-filament hydrodynamics: instabilities, boundary conditions and rheology,S. Ramaswamy and M. Rao, New Journal of Physics 9 (2007) 423 (Focus Issueon Physics of the Cytoskeleton).

48. Perspectives on the mode-coupling approximation for the dynamics of interactingBrownian particles, A. Basu and S. Ramaswamy, J. Stat. Mech. (2007) P11003.

49. Long-lived giant number fluctuations in a swarming granular nematic, V. Narayan,S. Ramaswamy, N. Menon, Science 317 (2007) 105 [highlighted in Perspectives:M. van Hecke, Science 317 (2007) 49]

50. Shear-flow-induced isotropic to nematic transition in a suspension of active fila-ments, S. Muhuri, M. Rao and S. Ramaswamy, Europhys Lett 78 (2007) 48002;

51. Superdiffusion of concentration in wormlike-micelle solutions, Rajesh Ganapathy,A.K. Sood, and S. Ramaswamy, Europhys Lett 77 (2007) 18007.

52. The mechanics of active matter: Broken-symmetry hydrodynamics of motile par-ticles and granular layers, S. Ramaswamy and R.A. Simha, Sol. Stat. Comm.139 (2006) 617622

53. Active nematics are intrinsically phase-separated, S. Mishra and S. Ramaswamy,Phys. Rev. Lett. 97 (2006) 090602;

54. Brownian-drag induced particle current in a model colloidal system, MoumitaDas, S. Ramaswamy, A.K. Sood, and G. Ananthakrishna, Phys. Rev. E 73(2006) 061409

55. Do current-density nonlinearities cut off the glass transition? M. E. Cates and S.Ramaswamy, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96 (2006) 135701.

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56. V. Narayan, N. Menon and S. Ramaswamy, Nonequilibrium steady states ina vibrated-rod monolayer: tetratic, nematic, and smectic correlations, J. Stat.Mech. (2006) P01005.

57. Hydrodynamics and phases of flocks, J. Toner, Y. Tu and S. Ramaswamy, Ann.Phys. 318 (2005) 170

58. Routes to spatiotemporal chaos in the rheology of nematogenic fluids, M. Das, B.Chakrabarti, C. Dasgupta, S. Ramaswamy, A.K. Sood, Phys Rev E 71 (2005)021707

59. Flow-induced current and voltage generation in carbon nanotubes, Shankar Ghosh,A.K. Sood, S. Ramaswamy and N. Kumar, Phys. Rev. B 70 (2004) 205423

60. Rheology of active-particle suspensions, Y. Hatwalne, S. Ramaswamy, M. Raoand R. A. Simha, Phys Rev Lett 92 (2004) 118101

61. Spatiotemporal rheochaos in nematic hydrodynamics B. Chakrabarti, M. Das, C.Dasgupta, S. Ramaswamy, A.K. Sood, Phys Rev Lett 92 (2004) 055501

62. Collective stochastic resonance in shear-induced melting of sliding bilayers MoumitaDas, G. Ananthakrishna and S. Ramaswamy, Phys Rev E 68 (2003) 061402

63. Active nematics on a substrate: giant number fluctuations and long-time tails, S.Ramaswamy, R.A. Simha and J. Toner, Europhys Lett 62 (2003) 196-202

64. A ratchet for heat transport between identical reservoirs, S. Das, O. Narayan andS. Ramaswamy, Phys Rev E (Rapid Comm.) 66 (2002) 050103

65. Anomalous heat conduction in one dimensional momentum-conserving systems,O. Narayan and S. Ramaswamy, Phys Rev Lett 89 (2002) 200601 [highlightedin R Livi and S Lepri, Nature (News and Views) 421 (2003) 327; https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v421/n6921/full/421327a.html]

66. Melt-freeze cycles in relatively sheared crystalline layers, M. Das, S. Ramaswamyand G. Ananthakrishna, Europhys Lett 60 (2002) 636-642

67. Driven Heisenberg magnets: nonequilibrium criticality, spatiotemporal chaos andcontrol, J. Das, M. Rao and S. Ramaswamy, Europhys. Lett. 60 (2002) 418-424

68. Hydrodynamic fluctuations and instabilities in ordered suspensions of self-propelledparticles: living liquid crystals, S. Ramaswamy and R.A. Simha, Phys Rev Lett89 (2002) 058101.

69. Theory of suspension segregation in partially filled horizontal rotating cylinders,R. Govindarajan, P.R. Nott and S. Ramaswamy, Phys. Fluids (Lett.) 13 (2001)3517-3520.

70. The physics of active membranes, S. Ramaswamy and Madan Rao, C.R. Acad.Sci. Paris (special issue on Physics at the Scale of the Cell) t. 2, Ser. IV 817-839(2001).

71. Issues in the statistical mechanics of steady sedimentation, S. Ramaswamy,Adv. Phys. 50 (2001) 297-341.

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72. Weak and strong dynamic scaling in a one-dimensional driven coupled-field model:Effects of kinematic waves, D. Das, A. Basu, M. Barma and S. Ramaswamy,Phys. Rev. E 64 (2001) 021402

73. Active membrane fluctuations studied by micropipet aspiration, J-B. Manneville,P. Bassereau, S. Ramaswamy, J. Prost, Phys. Rev. E 64 (2001) 021908

74. Nonequilibrium noise, steady states, and instabilities in membranes with activeproteins, S. Ramaswamy, J. Toner, and J. Prost, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84 (2000)3494

75. Strong phase separation in a model for sedimenting lattices, R. Lahiri, S. Ra-maswamy and M. Barma, Phys. Rev. E 61 (2000) 1648-1658

76. Inequivalence of ensembles in a driven diffusive system, M. Acharyya, A. Basu,R. Pandit, and S. Ramaswamy, Phys. Rev. E 61 (2000) 1139-1143

77. Suspensions far from equilibrium, S. Ramaswamy, Current Science 77 (SpecialSection on Nonequilibrium Statistical Systems), 402-410 (1999).

78. Travelling waves in a drifting flux lattice, R.A. Simha and S. Ramaswamy, Phys.Rev. Lett. 83, 3285 (1999).

79. Structure and rheology of the defect-gel states of pure and particle-dispersed ly-otropic lamellar phases, G. Basappa, Suneel, V. Kumaran, P.R. Nott, S. Ra-maswamy, V.M. Naik, and D. Rout, Eur. Phys. Jour. B 12 (1999) 269-276.

80. Mean magnetic field and noise cross-correlation in magnetohydrodynamic turbu-lence: results from a one-dimensional model, A. Basu, J.K. Bhattacharjee, and S.Ramaswamy, Eur. Phys. Jour. B 9, 725 (1999).

81. Screened and unscreened phases in sedimenting suspensions, A. Levine, S. Ra-maswamy, E. Frey, and R. Bruinsma, Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5944 (1998).

82. Are steadily moving crystals unstable? R. Lahiri and S. Ramaswamy, Phys.Rev. Lett. 79, 1150 (1997).

83. Power-law forces between particles in a nematic, S. Ramaswamy, R. Nityananda,V.A. Raghunathan, and J. Prost, Mol. Crys. Liq. Crys. 288, 175 (1996).

84. Sponge phase transitions from a lattice model, G. I. Menon, R. Pandit and S.Ramaswamy, Mol. Crys. Liq. Crys. 288, 93 (1996).

85. Anomalous viscous loss in emulsions, A.J. Liu, S. Ramaswamy, H. Gang, T.Mason, and D.A. Weitz, Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 3017 (1996).

86. Nonequilibrium phase transitions in a driven sandpile model, S.K. Dhar, R. Pan-dit, and S. Ramaswamy, J. Phys. A Lett. 28, L563 (1995).

87. Shear-induced enhancement of self-diffusion in interacting colloidal suspensions,A.V. Indrani and S. Ramaswamy, Phys. Rev. E52, 6492 (1995).

88. Comment on ‘Noise-induced nonequilibrium phase transition’, S. Ramaswamy,R. Pandit and R. Lahiri, Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 4786 (1995).

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89. Shear-induced melting and reentrance: a model, R. Lahiri and S. Ramaswamy,Phys. Rev. Lett. 73, 1043 (1994).

90. Multiple scattering of light and photon diffusion in nematic liquid crystals, S.Ramaswamy, J. Phys. Chem. 98, 9318 (1994).

91. Nonlinear effects of membrane fluctuations in the dilute lamellar phase, S. Ra-maswamy, J. Prost and T. C. Lubensky, Europhys. Lett. 27, 285 (1994).

92. Universal diffusion and subdiffusion in colloids at freezing, A.V. Indrani and S.Ramaswamy, Phys. Rev. Lett. 73, 360 (1994).

93. Novel polarisation dependence in multiple scattering of light from colloidal crys-tals, S. Sanyal, S. Ramkumar, S. Ramaswamy, N. Kumar and A.K. Sood, Phys.Rev. Lett. 72, 2963 (1994).

94. Dynamics of lyotropic lamellar phases, S. Ramaswamy, J. Prost, W. Cai andT.C. Lubensky, Europhys. Lett. 23, 271 (1993).

95. Hydrodynamics of the Renn-Lubensky twist grain boundary phase, and the de-coupled lamellar phase, Y. Hatwalne, S. Ramaswamy, and J. Toner, Phys. Rev.Lett. 70, 2090 (1993).

96. Search for a thermodynamic basis for the glass transition, C. Dasgupta and S.Ramaswamy, Physica A 186, 314 (1992).

97. Equilibrium and nonequilibrium dynamics of the dilute lamellar phase, S. Ra-maswamy, Physica A 186, 154 (1992).

98. Anomalously rough sandpile models in one dimension: exact decimation results,S. Ramaswamy, H.R. Krishnamurthy and S.K. Dhar, Phys. Rev. A 46, 1875(1992).

99. Dynamic structure factor of sponge phases, R. Granek, M.E. Cates, and S. Ra-maswamy, Europhys. Lett. 19, 499 (1992).

100. Phase separation in binary nearly-hard-sphere colloids: evidence for the depletionforce, S. Sanyal, N. Easwar, S. Ramaswamy, and A.K. Sood, Europhys. Lett.18, 107 (1992).

101. Shear-induced collapse of the dilute lamellar phase, S. Ramaswamy, Phys. Rev.Lett. 69, 112 (1992).

102. Is there a growing correlation length near the glass transition? C. Dasgupta, A.V.Indrani, S. Ramaswamy, and M.K. Phani, Europhys. Lett. 15, 307 (1991);Addendum: Europhys. Lett. 15, 467 (1991).

103. Grain boundary structure in incommensurate smectics: a signature of phasons,S. Ramaswamy and J. Toner, Europhys. Lett. 15, 185 (1991).

104. Grain boundary structure: a signature of phasons in incommensurate smectics,S. Ramaswamy and J. Toner, J. Phys. Condensed Matter 2, SA275 (1990).

105. Direct tests of the entropic model of quasicrystals, Y. Hatwalne and S. Ra-maswamy, Phys. Rev. Lett. 65, 68 (1990).

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106. Dynamics of freely suspended films with surface tension, Y. Marathe, S. Ra-maswamy, J. Physique 51, 2143 (1990).

107. Crumpling and second sound in lamellar phases, T.C. Lubensky, J. Prost, and S.Ramaswamy, J. Physique 51, 933 (1990).

108. How to see the Burgers vector of a quasicrystal dislocation, Y.V. Hatwalne andS. Ramaswamy, Phil.Mag.Lett. 61, 169 (1990).

109. Small-angle grain boundaries in quasicrystals, Y.V. Hatwalne, H.R. Krishna-murthy, R. Pandit, and S. Ramaswamy, Phys. Rev. Lett 62, 2699 (1989).

110. Dislocations and grain boundaries in quasicrystals, S. Ramaswamy, Phase Tran-sitions 16, 575 (1989).

111. Frequency-dependent viscosity of membrane solutions, Y. Marathe and S. Ra-maswamy, Europhys. Lett. 8, 581 (1989).

112. Static and dynamic properties of incommensurate smectic Aic liquid crystals, T.C.Lubensky S. Ramaswamy, and J. Toner, Phys. Rev. A 38, 4284 (1988).

113. Comment on ”Gravitomagnetic pole and mass quantisation”, S. Ramaswamyand A. Sen, Phys. Rev. Lett. 57, 1088 (1986).

114. Theory of shear-induced melting of colloidal crystals, S. Ramaswamy and S.R.Renn, Phys. Rev. Lett. 56, 945 (1986).

115. Dislocation motion in quasicrystals and implications for macroscopic properties,T.C. Lubensky, S. Ramaswamy, and J. Toner, Phys. Rev. B 33, 7715 (1986).

116. Hydrodynamics of icosahedral quasicrystals, T.C. Lubensky, S. Ramaswamy,and J. Toner, Phys. Rev. B 32, 7444 (1985).

117. Elasticity and dislocations in pentagonal and icosahedral quasicrystals, D. Levine,T.C. Lubensky, S. Ostlund, S. Ramaswamy, P.J. Steinhardt and J. Toner, Phys.Rev. Lett. 54, 1520 (1985).

118. Reply to ”Comment on dynamical theories of the liquid-glass transition”, S.P.Das, G.F. Mazenko S. Ramaswamy, and J.Toner, Phys. Rev. A 32, 3139(1985).

119. Hydrodynamic theory of the glass transition, S.P. Das, G.F. Mazenko, S. Ra-maswamy, and J. Toner, Phys. Rev. Lett. 54, 118 (1985).

120. Smectics A and C are always glasses, S. Ramaswamy and J. Toner, Phys. Rev.Lett. 53, 477 (1984).

121. Solid-like behaviour in liquid layers: A theory of the yield stress in smectics, S.Ramaswamy, Phys. Rev. A 29, 1506 (1984).

122. Breakdown of conventional hydrodynamics in three-dimensional systems withlong-ranged two-dimensional translational order, S. Ramaswamy and J. Toner,Phys. Rev. A 28, 3159 (1983).

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123. Breakdown of conventional hydrodynamics for smectic A, hexatic B and cholester-ic liquid crystals, G.F. Mazenko, S. Ramaswamy, and J. Toner, Phys. Rev. A28, 1618 (1983).

124. Viscosities diverge as 1/ω in smectic A liquid crystals, G.F. Mazenko, S. Ra-maswamy and J. Toner, Phys. Rev. Lett. 49, 51 (1982).

125. The linear and nonlinear hydrodynamics of low friction adsorbed systems, S.Ramaswamy and G.F. Mazenko, Phys. Rev. A 26, 1735 (1982).

126. Dual mass in general relativity, S. Ramaswamy and A. Sen, J. Math. Phys. 22,2612 (1981).

127. Particle production by white holes, R.M. Wald and S. Ramaswamy, Phys. Rev.D 21, 2736 (1980).

128. Birkhoff theorem for an R + R2 theory of gravity with torsion, S. Ramaswamyand P.B. Yasskin, Phys. Rev. D 19, 2264 (1979).

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Invited articles and commentary

1. Active fluids, Nature Reviews Physics 1 (2019) 640-642; invited Comment in theGeorge Gabriel Stokes bicentenary collection on fluid dynamics, https://rdcu.be/bUYRt

2. The matter of life, an interview in The Biologist 66 (2019) 26; https://thebiologist.rsb.org.uk/biologist-interviews/162-biologist/biologist-interviews/2189-test

3. Big Cells Cleave as Fast as Small Ones: the Physics of Cytokinesis, S. Ra-maswamy, Biophys J, 106 (2014) 5-6; https://www.cell.com/biophysj/fulltext/S0006-3495(13)04930-8

4. Filaments band together, J.-F. Joanny and S Ramaswamy, Nature (News andViews) 467 (2010) 33

5. Rheological chaos in wormlike micelles and nematic hydrodynamics M. Das, R.Bandyopadhyay, B. Chakrabarti, C. Dasgupta, S. Ramaswamy and A.K. Sood,in Molecular Gels: Materials with Self-Assembled Fibrillar Networks, Richard G.Weiss and Pierre Terech (editors), Kluwer, Amsterdam (2006).

6. Stripes in sheared non-brownian suspensions with a free surface, R. Govindarajan,P.R. Nott and S. Ramaswamy, Proc. Statphys Kolkata 2002 Physica A 318(2003) 80-84.

7. Statistical hydrodynamics of ordered suspensions of self-propelled particles: waves,giant number fluctuations and instabilities, R.A. Simha and S. Ramaswamy (Proc.STATPHYS21) Physica A 306 (2002) 262-269.

8. Phase Diagram of a Two-Species Lattice Model with a Linear Instability, S. Ra-maswamy, M. Barma, D. Das, and A. Basu (Proc. Discussion Meeting on SlowDynamics and Freezing, JNU), Phase Transitions B 75 (2002) 363-375

9. Steady states of dynamically coupled two-species systems, M. Barma and S. Ra-maswamy, Turk. J. Phys. 24 (2000) 235 (Proc. Regl. Conf. Math. Phys.).

10. Pollen grains, random walks, and Einstein, S. Ramaswamy, Resonance 5 (2000)16-34.

11. Steady states and instabilities in active membranes, S. Ramaswamy, J.Toner,and J. Prost, Proc. Raman Research Institute Golden Jubilee Conf. on LiquidCrystals and Other Soft Condensed Matter; Pramana 53 (1999) 237.

12. Hydrodynamic screening in Stokesian fluidised beds: A. Levine, S. Ramaswamy,E. Frey, and R. Bruinsma, in Structure and Dynamics of Materials in the Meso-scopic Domain (Proc. 4th Royal Society-Unilever Indo-UK Forum in Mat. Sci.and Engg.), Eds. Moti Lal, R.A. Mashelkar, B.D. Kulkarni, V.M. Naik (ImperialCollege Press and The Royal Society, 1999) pp. 195-206.

13. The nonequilibrium statistical mechanics of sedimentation: S. Ramaswamy, inDynamics of Complex Fluids, Eds. M J Adams, R A Mashelkar, J R A Pearsonand A R Rennie, Imperial College Press – The Royal Society 1998.

14. (i) Self-diffusion of colloids at freezing; (ii) Shear-enhanced diffusion in colloids;(iii) Excess dissipation in dense emulsions; three chapters in Dynamical theory ofcomplex fluids (NATO ASI), Ed. T C B McLeish, Kluwer 1997.

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15. The physical properties of entropic quasicrystals: S. Ramaswamy, invited paperin Proc. Indo-US workshop on Interfaces (1989), published by Oxford UniversityPress, 1992.

16. The nature of dislocation motion in quasicrystals, S. Ramaswamy, Bull. Mat. Sci.10, 75 (1988).

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Invited Conferences and Workshops

Upcoming

1. Invited Workshop on Hydrodynamics at Nordita, Stockholm, Sep 2021

2. Invited lecture at Active Matter at Surfaces and in Complex Environments, MaxPlanck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany, 21-25June 2021

3. Invited lecture at Active matter: the next 25 years, Lorentz Center, Leiden,Netherlands, 30 Nov - 4 Dec 2020

4. Invited lecture at Spatial Organization of Biological Functions, International Cen-tre for Theoretical Sciences, Bangalore, 17-20 Aug 2020

5. Plenary lecture at the International Liquid Crystal Conference, 26-31 July 2020,Lisbon, Portugal

6. Invited lecture at Meeting on Cellular Biophysics, Dept of Biosystems Science andEngineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 22-23 June 2020

7. Coordinator (along with M J Bowick, M E Cates, N Fakhri, and M C Marchetti),of the program Symmetry, Thermodynamics and Topology in Active Matter at theKavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara, 16 March - 29 May2020

Past

1. Bose Colloquium, SN Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, 10 Jan2020

2. Invited lecture at Recent Topics in Statistical Mechanics, NISER, Bhubaneswar,11 Dec 2019

3. Invited lecture at conference in honour of Aditi Simha, 10 Dec 2019, IIT Madras

4. Invited lecture at Universality: Turbulence Across Vast Scales, Flatiron Institute,New York, 2-6 Dec 2019

5. Invited speaker, Gordon Conference on Liquid Crystals, Colby-Sawyer College,New London NH, USA, 7-12 July 2019

6. Plenary lecture, International Soft Matter Conference, Edinburgh, 3-7 June 2019

7. Invited lecture on Fluid Flocks with Inertia at workshop Optimal design of softmatter, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK, 13-17 May 2019

8. Invited lecture on Dry Active Matter and Vibrated Grains at one-day conference,Edwards Centre for Soft Matter, Cambridge University, 24 May 2019

9. Invited speaker, “Advances in Physics of Emergent orders in Fluctuations”(APEF2018),University of Tokyo, Japan, 12-15 Nov 2018.

10. Invited lectures at “Entropy, Information and Order in Soft Matter”, ICTS-TIFRBangalore, 19-21 Sep 2018

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11. Invited lecture at inaugural Rudolf Peierls Symposium on Theoretical Physics,Oxford University, 5-6 July 2018

12. Invited lecture at “Physics Next”, Long Island, NY, 24-27 Apr 2018

13. Invited talk at 2018 MRS Spring Meeting (Symposium on Active Colloids withOrder), Phoenix, Arizona, 2-6 Apr 2018

14. Invited participant, KITP Program on Dense Suspensions, UC Santa Barbara,12-29 March 2018

15. Science Day public lectures organised by the Karnataka Rajya Vijnana Parishat,Shivamogga, 28 Feb 2018

16. Invited lectures at School on Statistical Physics, Sarvajanik College, Surat, 18-30Dec 2017

17. Invited talk at Rutgers Meeting on Statistical Physics, 17-19 Dec 2017

18. Invited talk at Principal of Condensed Matter: A Symposium in Honor of TomLubensky, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 4-5 Nov 2017

19. Invited talk at Indo-Israeli meeting on Frontiers in Condensed Matter Physics,Indian Inst of Science, Bangalore, 17-19 Oct 2017

20. Colloquium Ehrenfestii, Leiden University, 25-28 Sep 2017

21. Invited speaker, Discussion Meeting on Soft Matter, Georgetown University, 17-18Aug 2017

22. Invited lecturer, Bangalore School on Statistical Physics, 4 to 14 July 2017

23. Invited lecturer, Advanced school on experimental and theoretical approaches tocell mechanics, NCBS, Bangalore, 23 April - 6 May 2017

24. Invited speaker, Statphys Kolkata, Dec 2016

25. Invited speaker, CompFlu, Hyderabad, Dec 2016

26. S Datta Majumdar Memorial Lecture, IIT Kharagpur, 16 Nov 2016

27. TEDx lecture on Active Matter, National Institute of Technology Karnataka,Surathkal, 18 Oct 2016

28. Mechanical Forces in Cell Biology: Information at the Cell and Tissue scale,NCBS, Bangalore, 4-6 Oct 2016

29. NISER Foundation Day lecture, 6 Sep 2016, NISER, Bhubaneswar

30. Invited speaker, Mathematical Problems of Orientationally Ordered Soft Solids,Oaxaca, Mexico, 4-9 Sep 2016 (cancelled participation)

31. Invited speaker, ICTAM 2016, Montreal, August 2016 (cancelled participation)

32. Plenary speaker, STATPHYS26, Lyon, July 2016

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33. Invited speaker, 7th KIAS conference on statistical physics, “Nonequilibrium Sta-tistical Physics of Complex Systems”, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul,4-7 July 2016 (cancelled participation)

34. Invited speaker, IASBS-ICTP School on Active Matter and Chemotaxis, Zanjan,Iran, May 2016

35. Invited speaker, SFB on Collective Behavior of Soft and Biological Matter, Ho-hegeiss, Germany, Nov 2015.

36. Invited speaker, Soft Matter Gordon Research Conference, 10-14 Aug 2015

37. Invited speaker, Quantitative Biomedicine Symposium, Warwick Univ, May 2015

38. Invited speaker, (i) Active Matter Conference, Suzhou, China and (ii) SpringSchool on Active Matter, Beijing Computational Science Research Centre, May2015

39. Invited lecture, Cell Mechanics Conference, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore,24-26 April 2015

40. Invited lecture, German Physical Society (special session in honour of SiegfriedHess), Berlin, March 2015

41. Invited public lecture, S S Bhatnagar Institute for Chemical Engineering andTechnology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, 21 Feb 2015

42. Invited lecture, Current Topics in Condensed Matter Physics, NISER, Bhubaneswar,19-21 Feb 2015

43. Invited lecture, Mini Statmech Meeting, Berkeley, Jan 2015

44. Invited lecture, Focused Program on Physics Approach to Simplifying Complexityin Biology, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Dec 2014

45. Invited public lecture, Soft Matter Program, Syracuse University, October 2014

46. Invited lecturer, Beg Rohu summer school on statistical physics and condensedmatter, Brittany, France, Sep 2014.

47. Invited speaker, conference in honour of Aneesur Rahman, Univ of Hyderabad,Aug 2014

48. Coordinator (with M C Marchetti and C Schmidt) of the Program on ActiveMatter: Cytoskeleton, Cells, Tissues and Flocks, KITP, UC Santa Barbara, Jan-May 2014.

49. Invited lecture at the March meeting of the Condensed Matter Division of theAmerican Physical Society, Denver, March 2014

50. Invited lecture at Conference on Frontiers of Soft Matter Physics: from Non-equilibrium Dynamics to Active Matter, Hong Kong University of Science andTechnology, 13 17 Jan 2014

51. Invited lecture at Symposium on Complex Systems : From Physics to Biology15-16 Oct 2013, JNU, New Delhi.

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52. Invited lecturer, I-CAMP’13 summer school, programme on the Mathematics ofLiquid Crystals, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge University, June 2013

53. Invited member, programme on Mathematical Modelling and Analysis of ComplexFluids and Active Media in Evolving Domains, Isaac Newton Institute, CambridgeUniversity, June 2013

54. Prof. Sivaramakrishnan Chandrasekhar Memorial Lecture, Centre for Soft MatterResearch, Bangalore, June 2013

55. Motile Matter – Higgs Centre Colloquium, University of Edinburgh, 8 March 2013

56. Public Lecture at Science Day symposium, IISER Pune, 28 Feb 2013.

57. Infosys Prize Lecture, delivered within the conference “Advances in QuantumTheory”, University of Hyderabad, 25 Feb 2013.

58. Invited talk at the conference “Self-organization and Emergent Dynamics in Ac-tive Soft Matter”, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto, 18-20 Feb2013

59. Invited talk at Conference on Condensed Matter and Biological Systems, BHU,Varanasi, 11-14 Jan 2013

60. Invited talk at B12B, Silver Jubilee of CCMB, Hyderabad, 25-27 Nov 2012.

61. Invited talk at workshop on Nonequilibrium collective dynamics – Bridging thegap between hard and soft materials, Potsdam, Germany, 1-4 Oct 2012.

62. Invited talk at Workshop on Active Soft and Biological Matter, in honor of JacquesProst, Les Houches, France, 30 Sep - 5 Oct 2012.

63. Invited talk at Frontiers in Physics, University of Hyderabad, 27-28 Sep 2012

64. Invited talk at De Gennes Days on Physics of Cells, from soft to living matter(PhysCell2012), Hyeres, France, 4-7 Sep 2012

65. Invited talk at IUTAM Symposium “Mobile Particulate systems”, Bangalore, 23-27 January 2012

66. Invited talk at Current Topics in Condensed Matter, IISER Kolkata 7-9 Oct 2011

67. Invited talk at “Emerging paradigms in Physical Biology”, 27-28 Aug 2011, NCBS,Bangalore

68. Fluctuations and Response in Active Materials: From Driven Granular Systemsto Swarming Bacteria, 20-24 Jun 2011, Lorentz Center, Leiden, Netherlands

69. Individual and Collective Dynamics in Active Suspensions, 9-10 June 2011, Insti-tut Henri Poincare, Paris

70. Co-director, School and Conference on Mathematics and Physics of Soft and Bi-ological Matter, ICTP, Trieste, 2-13 May 2011

71. The Hydrodynamics of Suspensions of Active Filaments: Indo-US Conference onGels, Thiruvananthapuram, January 2011

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72. Active Matter – liquid-crystal hydrodynamics in a new setting: DAE Solid StateSymposium, Manipal, December 2010

73. Invited lecturer, Workshop on Active Materials, 17 to 19 Nov 2010 at the Univer-siteit Stellenbosch, South Africa.

74. Invited speaker, International Workshop on ”Statistical physics and biology ofcollective motion”, 8 to 12 Nov 2010 at the Max Planck Institute for the Physicsof Complex Systems, Dresden.

75. Invited speaker, Workshop on Individual and Collective Fluid Mechanics of Swim-ming Microorganisms, 6-8 July 2010 in Glasgow, Scotland

76. Invited speaker, 2010 Gordon Research Conference on Granular & Granular-FluidFlow, 20-25 June 2010 at Colby College, Waterville, Maine.

77. Invited lecturer, school on nonequilibrium physics, 22 March to 3 April 3 2010,Raman Research Institute, Bangalore.

78. Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar Lecture at Workshop on Nonequilibrium Statis-tical Physics, IIT Kanpur, February 2010.

79. Invited speaker at conference in honour of Albert Libchaber, entitled Breakingbarriers: from Physics to Biology, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Ban-galore, January 2010.

80. Invited speaker, conference on Evolution of Complex Systems, Bangalore, January2010.

81. Invited panelist at Inaugural Event of the International Centre for TheoreticalSciences, Bangalore, December 2009

82. Invited speaker, workshop on Flowing Complex Fluids: Rheological measurementsand constitutive modeling, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, Uni-versity of Minnesota, 14-18 Sep 2009.

83. (cancelled due to illness) Invited speaker, workshop on Nonequilibrium Physics,Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto, 21 July to 14 August 2009.

84. Invited lecturer, Institut Henri Poincare, ”Physique statistique des systemes actifs,January 2009.

85. Invited speaker, Complex Fluids Workshop, Monash University, Melbourne, Aus-tralia, August 2008.

86. Invited speaker, International Conference on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics,Adelaide, Australia, August 2008.

87. Plenary speaker, International Liquid Matter Conference, Lund (Sweden), June26 - July 1, 2008.

88. Invited organizer of focus session on self propelled particles, APS March meeting,New Orleans, March 2008.

89. Invited speaker, Conference on Nonequilibrium Phenomena in Condensed Matter,New Delhi, February 2008

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90. Invited lecturer, Autumn School on Physics of New Materials, Tribhuvan Univer-sity, Kathmandu, October 2007.

91. Invited speaker, International Conference on Advanced Materials of the Interna-tional Union of Materials Research Societies, Bangalore, 8-13 October 2007.

92. Invited speaker, Mesoscale modelling for complex fluids and flows, Oxford Uni-versity, June 2007.

93. Invited speaker, meeting of the Condensed Matter Division of the American Phys-ical Society, Denver, March 2007.

94. Invited speaker, “Assembly, Organization and Propulsion in Complex Systems,22-24 Feb 2007, IIT Madras.

95. Invited lecturer, SERC School on Nonlinear Dynamics, Kolkata, 20-21 Dec 2006.

96. Invited speaker, Third National Symposium on Complex Fluids, 14-15 Dec 2006,IIT Kanpur.

97. Invited speaker, “Dynamics of Complex Fluids – Ten Years On”, 2 to 5 Oct 2006,Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Science, Cambridge University, UK

98. Invited member, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, May2006.

99. Invited organiser of Workshop on Driven States in Soft and Biological Matter,Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, 18-28 April2006.

100. Invited lecture at India-UK Science Networks workshop, Raman Research Insti-tute, November 2005

101. Invited lecture at Heraeus Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics of Complex Con-tinua, Bayreuth, Germany, October 2005.

102. Invited lecture at Conference on Statistical Mechanics of Plasticity and RelatedInstabilities, Bangalore, August 2005.

103. Invited lecture at the Workshop on Frontiers of Soft Condensed Matter, Exxon-Mobil Corporate Strategic Research Laboratory, New Jersey, USA, 18-20 May2005

104. Invited lecture at the NBHM Workshop on Hydrodynamics, IISc, Bangalore.

105. Invited lecturer at the Taiwan Soft Matter Summer School, Yang-ming NationalPark, Taiwan September 2004.

106. Invited speaker at the Statphys Satellite meeting on Pattern Formation, S N BoseNational Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, July 2004.

107. Invited speaker at the Statphys Satellite meeting on Statistical Physics of ComplexFluids, Zanjan, Iran, June 2004.

108. Invited lecturer at the the SERC School on Statistical Physics, TIFR, Mumbai,February 2004.

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109. Invited speaker at TP-2003: National Conference on Theoretical Physics in cele-bration of 50 years of the Department of Theoretical Physics, Indian Associationfor the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, 21-24 Jan 2003

110. Invited speaker at the 4th KAIST-UCSB Invitation Workshop on Advanced Ma-terials, at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 2-5Nov 2002.

111. Invited member, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, for the pro-gramme on Dynamics of Complex and Macromolecular Fluids, May-June 2002.

112. Invited lecture at the Indo-Israeli Meeting on Condensed Matter Physics, IsraelAcademy of Sciences, Jerusalem, Israel, January 2002.

113. Invited lecture at STATPHYS 21, Cancun, Mexico, July 2001.

114. Invited lectures at the Discussion Meeting and School on The Physics of BiologicalSystems, held by the Kumari L A Meera Trust, Mysore, Feb 2001.

115. Invited lecture at India and Abroad: Research Perspectives and Projections inCondensed Matter Physics, S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata,2-4 January 2001

116. Invited lecture on the Statistical Mechanics of Sedimentation, at the AmericanInstitute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, 12-17 November2000.

117. Popli Memorial lecturer (three invited lectures) at St Stephen’s College, Delhi,6-8 November 2000.

118. Invited lectures at a workshop on Soft Matter: Physical and Biological Aspects,Australian National University, Canberra, 22-29 October 2000.

119. Invited lecture at the Unilever CREF Annual Physical Sciences Review, PortSunlight, UK, 17-19 October 2000.

120. Invited member and speaker at the Aspen Center for Physics workshop on Stochas-tic Dynamics of Continuous Media, 19 June to 9 July 2000.

121. Invited speaker at the Discussion Meeting on Slow Dynamics and Freezing, Schoolof Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 9 and 10 March2000.

122. Invited organiser (along with A K Sood) and lecturer at the Discussion Meetingand School on Soft Condensed Matter, held by the Kumari L A Meera Trust,Mysore, 26 Jan to 2 Feb 2000.

123. Invited lecture at the Complex Materials Conference at the University of Califor-nia, Santa Barbara, USA 22-27 August 1999.

124. Invited lecture at the 1st Indo-Israeli Symposium on Condensed Matter and Ma-terials Physics, New Delhi, January 1999.

125. Invited lecture at the Raman Research Institute Golden Jubilee Conference onLiquid Crystals and Other Soft Condensed Matter, Bangalore, December 1998.

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126. Invited lecture at the UCSB/JNCASR/IISc Workshop on Materials, Bangalore,November 1998.

127. Invited lecture at the 5th IUMRS International Conference in Asia, Bangalore,October 1998.

128. Three invited lectures at a summer school on ‘Physical Concepts at the scale ofthe cell’, Cargese, France, July 1998.

129. Invited organiser of a Spring College on The Statistical Mechanics and Dynamicsof Soft Condensed Matter, and an Adriatico Research Conference on ComplexFluids Far From Equilibrium, ICTP, Trieste, 4 May - 12 June 1998.

130. Invited keynote lecture at the Royal Society - Unilever - IndoUK Forum on ‘Struc-ture and Dynamics of Materials in the Mesoscopic Domain’, Pune, December 1997.

131. Invited lecture at a workshop on Polymers and Membranes, Kleinmachnow, Ger-many, September 1996.

132. Invited lecture at the Conference on the Dynamics of Complex Fluids, a RoyalSociety - Unilever - IndoUK Forum, Cavendish Laboratory and Isaac NewtonInstitute, Cambridge June 1996.

133. Invited lectures at the NATO Advanced Study Institute and Workshop on theDynamics of Complex Fluids, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, 24 March to20 April 1996.

134. Invited lecture at the Solid State Symposium of the Department of Atomic Energy,Calcutta, December 1995.

135. Workshop on The Physics of Biomembranes, Institute for Theoretical Physics,University of California, Santa Barbara, August to December 1994.

136. Gordon Research Conference on Complex Fluids, Irsee, Germany, September-October 1993.

137. Discussion Meeting on Dynamical Aspects of Fluid Phases, School of PhysicalSciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, January 1993.

138. Aspen Centre for Physics: Membranes workshop, summer 1992.

139. Statistical Physics of Polymers, Disordered Solids and Glasses, Calcutta Dec 1991- Jan 1992.

140. First International Conference on Liquid Matter, Lyon, France 1990.

141. Nehru Centre Workshop on Complex Fluids, Bangalore 1990.

142. Indo Soviet Discussion Meeting on Phase Transitions, Bangalore 1990.

143. Adriatico 25th Anniversary Conference on Quasicrystals at ICTP, Trieste, 1989.

144. Indo-US Workshop on Interfaces, Bangalore 1989.

145. Modulated Structures, Polytypes and Quasicrystals, Banaras 1988.

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146. Quasicrystals Workshop, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara 1987.

147. Aspen Center for Physics, Workshop on Glassy Dynamics, August 1985.

148. Invited lecture on the Unconventional Hydrodynamics of Anisotropic Materials,at the American Physical Society Meeting, Detroit, March 1984.

149. Aspen Center for Physics, Workshop on Exotic Ordered Phases, August 1983.

Awards and honours:

1. KITP Simons Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics,University of California, Santa Barbara, March-April 2018.

2. Alumni Award for Excellence in Research, Indian Institute of Science, 2018

3. Mayent-Rothschild Institut Curie Award 2018 (finally declined because of personalconstraints)

4. Homi Bhabha Chair (Tata Education and Development Trust) Oct 2017-Sep 2020

5. DSc honoris causa, Coochbehar Panchanan Barma University, West Bengal, 2017

6. Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society, October 2016

7. H K Firodia Vijnan Ratna Award for 2016

8. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, April 2016

9. Infosys Prize for the Physical Sciences 2011

10. Outstanding Referee for the American Physical Society 2010

11. J C Bose National Fellowship since 2007 (renewed 2012 & 2017)

12. G. D. Birla Prize for Science, 2006

13. Elected Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, Jan 2004

14. Chaire Paris Sciences, ESPCI Paris, May 2003

15. Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for the Physical Sciences for 2000

16. NASI Young Scientist Millenium Award, 2000

17. B.M. Birla Memorial Prize for Physics for the year 1996 (announced 1998).

18. Elected a fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, 1996

19. N.S. Satyamurthy Award for 1988

20. Elected an Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences 1988-1992

Editorial Board and International Committee Memberships

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1. Member, Editorial Board, Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical,Physical & Engineering Sciences, from Jan 2018

2. Member, Editorial Committee, Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics.since Jan 2011.

3. Member, Editorial Board of Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Exper-iment, since January 2004.

4. Member, Advisory Board of Soft Matter since May 2008

5. Member, Scientific Committee, 12th European Biophysical Societies Association,for the 10th ICBP-IUPAP Biophysics Congress, Madrid, July 2019.

Past Editorial Board and International Committee memberships

1. Advances in Physics, June 2007 - Dec 2018.

2. Member, Editorial Board, European Physical Journal E, Dec 2009 - Dec 2018

3. Physical Review E

4. Member (2006-2011) and vice-chair (2008-2011), C3 Commission (Statistical Physics)of the IUPAP; member, Steering Committee of Statphys24, the XXIV interna-tional conference on statistical physics of the IUPAP

5. Liquid Crystals

6. Current Science

7. Resonance

Current Research Grants:

1. Homi Bhabha Chair Professorship of the Tata Education and Development Trust,Oct 2017 - Oct 2020; research grant: Rs 1 000 000 per year

2. J C Bose Fellowship of the Department of Science and Technology, India; researchgrant: Rs 1 000 000 per year; since 2007 (renewed 2012, renewed 2017).

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